Voltage reactive power control device and voltage reactive power control method

ABSTRACT

A voltage reactive power control device includes a bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit that extracts a bus voltage fluctuation from a voltage of a secondary-side bus, an RE component extracting unit that extracts a fluctuation component due to renewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation, a creating unit that creates a reactive power command value for suppressing the fluctuation component based on the bus voltage fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation extracted by the RE component extracting unit, and a control unit that executes the reactive power control on a battery system based on the reactive power command value. The RE component extracting unit extracts the fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation by eliminating the fluctuation components other than the fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation.

FIELD

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a voltage reactive powercontrol device and a voltage reactive power control program.

BACKGROUND

A power distribution system interconnected to a power distributiontransformer station employs a structure spreading dendritically tosystem terminals from the transformer station, and includes a pluralityof consumers, such as houses, business facilities, and factories, thatis, loads. Since the power consumption amounts by the consumers changefrom hour to hour and the number of consumers is large, the voltage ofthe bus of the power distribution transformer station interconnected tothe power distribution system changes. In order to suppress fluctuationof the bus voltage of the power distribution transformer station due tothis load change, conventionally, voltage adjusting devices, such as atransformer that can be tap switched, and phase adjusting facilities areprovided to said transformer station.

Meanwhile, in recent years, introduction of renewable energy isadvancing actively to cope with global environmental issues and toensure a stable supply by the diversification of energy sources, and theintroduction of distributed power supplies, such as solar powergeneration and wind power generation, to the power system is increasingsteadily. These distributed power supplies are mainly interconnected toa power distribution system.

CITATION LIST Non-Patent Literatures

Non-patent Document 1: Noriyuki UCHIYAMA and other three authors,“Reactive Power Control Method for Reducing Voltage Fluctuation inLarge-scale Photovoltaic Systems”, IEEJ Transactions on Power andEnergy, 2010, vol. 130, No. 3, p. 297 to p. 304

SUMMARY

Since the renewable energy power generation, such as solar powergeneration and wind power generation, has an amount of generated powerthat varies depending on a natural environment, such as the amount ofsolar light and the wind direction, the output is likely to be unstable.Hence, when a large number of renewable energy power generations, suchas a solar power generation and a wind power generation, isinterconnected to the bus of the power distribution transformer station,the bus voltage fluctuation increases, possibly affecting the stableoperation of the power system. In particular, it is expected that therenewable energy power generations, such as a solar power generation anda wind power generation, are to be introduced in a large amount, acountermeasure of suppressing a bus voltage of the power distributiontransformer station is desired.

In this point, the bus voltage fluctuation by the output fluctuation ofthe renewable energy power generation may be suppressed by the reactivepower control of a conventional voltage adjusting device. However, sincethe conventional voltage adjusting device is for mainly suppressing abus voltage fluctuation due to a load change as described above makingthe control complicated, and since there is also a desire to apply theconventional technology as it is, this scheme is not practical.

What is also considered is to comprehensively control reactive power tobe output by a plurality of solar power generations (PVs) distributed inthe power distribution system using communications, to address a busvoltage fluctuation due to output fluctuation of the PVs. However, it isnecessary to install communication means to all PVs distributed in thepower distribution system, and since the PVs may be located widespreadin various areas, the introduction of this scheme is not easy in view ofcosts and labors. Moreover, since it is necessary to individuallycontrol the distributed PV, the control is likely to be complicated.

A voltage reactive power control device and a voltage reactive powercontrol program according to an embodiment have been made in order toaddress the foregoing technical problems, and an objective is to providea voltage reactive power control device and a voltage reactive powercontrol program capable of suppressing a bus voltage fluctuation of apower distribution transformer station due to an output fluctuation of arenewable energy power generation by a simple control that utilizes abattery, while achieving a cooperative action with already-existingfacilities.

In order to achieve the above objective, a voltage reactive powercontrol device suppresses a fluctuation of a bus voltage of a powerdistribution transformer station to which a power distribution systemincluding a renewable energy power generation, and a battery system areconnected, and the voltage reactive power control device includes:

a first extracting unit that extracts the bus voltage fluctuation fromof the bus voltage;

a second extracting unit that extracts a fluctuation component due tothe renewable energy power generation from bus voltage fluctuation;

a creating unit that creates a reactive power command value forsuppressing the fluctuation based on the bus voltage fluctuationcomponent due to the renewable energy power generation extracted by thesecond extracting unit; and

a control unit that executes a reactive power control on the batterysystem based on the reactive power command value,

in which the second extracting unit extracts the fluctuation componentdue to the renewable energy power generation by eliminating thefluctuation components other than the fluctuation component due to therenewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation.

A voltage reactive power control program according to an embodiment isto suppress a fluctuation of a bus voltage of a power distributiontransformer station to which a power distribution system including arenewable energy power generation, and a battery system are connected,and the voltage reactive power control program causes a computer toexecute:

a first extracting process of extracting a bus voltage fluctuation froma the bus voltage;

a second extracting process of extracting a fluctuation component due tothe renewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation;

a creating process of creating a reactive power command value forsuppressing the fluctuation component based on the bus voltagefluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generationextracted by the second extracting process; and

a control process of executing a reactive power control on the batterysystem based on the reactive power command value,

in which the second extracting process includes:

a transformer component eliminating process of eliminating a bus voltagefluctuation component due to a tap control on a transformer provided inthe power distribution transformer station from the input bus voltagefluctuation;

a phase-adjusting-facilities component eliminating process ofeliminating a bus voltage fluctuation component due to an operation ofphase adjusting facilities provided in the power distributiontransformer station from the input bus voltage fluctuation;

a power-distribution-system-load component eliminating process ofeliminating a bus voltage fluctuation component due to a load change inthe power distribution system from the input bus voltage fluctuation;

a higher-system component eliminating process of eliminating a busvoltage fluctuation component due to a demand-and-supply change of ahigher-system connected to the power distribution transformer stationfrom the input bus voltage fluctuation; and

a battery component eliminating process of eliminating a bus voltagefluctuation component due to a control on the battery system from theinput bus voltage fluctuation.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of an entire voltage reactive powercontrol system to which a voltage reactive power control deviceaccording to a first embodiment is applied;

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the voltage reactive powercontrol device according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of an RE component extracting unit;

FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram of the RE component extracting unitaccording to a modified example;

FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of an entire voltage reactive powercontrol system to which a voltage reactive power control deviceaccording to a second embodiment is applied; and

FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram of the voltage reactive powercontrol device according to the second embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION 1. First Embodiment

A voltage reactive power control device and a voltage reactive powercontrol system according to this embodiment will be described below withreference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

[1-1. Structure]

FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of an entire voltage reactive powercontrol system to which a voltage reactive power control deviceaccording to this embodiment is applied.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, a voltage reactive power control systemincludes a power distribution transformer station 1, a powerdistribution system 2 connected to the power distribution transformerstation 1, phase adjusting facilities 3 provided in the powerdistribution transformer station 1, a battery system 4 connected to thepower distribution transformer station 1, and a voltage reactive powercontrol device 5.

The power distribution transformer station 1 includes a primary-side bus11, a secondary-side bus 12, and a plurality of transformers 13 providedin parallel between the primary-side bus 11 and the secondary-side bus12. A higher system such as an extra-high voltage system is connected tothe primary-side bus 11. The power distribution system 2 and the batterysystem 4 are interconnected to the secondary-side bus 12. Thetransformer 13 is a transformer that can be tap changed, is connected toa control device (unillustrated) that controls the tap of thetransformer 13, and the tap of the transformer 13 is controlled by thecontrol device to adjust voltage fluctuations of the bus 11 and 12 bychanging a winding ratio.

The power distribution system 2 is interconnected to loads and aplurality of renewable energy power generations. The renewable energypower generations (also referred to as simply RE below) include naturalenergy power generations, such as solar power generation and wind powergeneration.

The phase adjusting facilities 3 are a voltage adjusting device thatincludes a capacitor and a shunt reactor, etc., and is connected to thesecondary-side bus 12 in this example. The phase adjusting facilities 3are provided with a control device (unillustrated) of the phaseadjusting facilities 3, and the phase adjusting facilities 3 iscontrolled by the control device to adjust the voltage of thesecondary-side bus 12 by generating the reactive power and applying thereactive power to the secondary-side bus 12. Moreover, the phaseadjusting facilities 3 may include, in addition to the capacitor and thereactor, a rotary capacitor (synchronous phase modifier), etc.

The transformer 13, the control device that controls the tap of thetransformer 13, the phase adjusting facilities 3, and the control devicethereof are already-existing voltage adjusting devices conventionallyprovided at the transformer station.

The battery system 4 applies or absorbs the reactive power relative tothe secondary-side bus 12, and includes a plurality of batteries, an ACand DC converter that converts DC and AC, and a control device of the ACand DC converter. The battery system 4 is connected to the voltagereactive power control device 5, and suppresses a voltage fluctuation ofthe secondary-side bus 12 by applying or absorbing the reactive powerrelative to the secondary-side bus 12 in response to a command from thevoltage reactive power control device 5.

The voltage reactive power control device 5 is a device to suppress abus voltage fluctuation due to the output fluctuation of the renewableenergy power generations among the bus bar voltage fluctuation of thepower distribution transformer station 1. In this embodiment, thedescription will be given of an example case in which the voltagefluctuation of the secondary-side bus 12 is suppressed.

The voltage reactive power control device 5 includes, for example, asingle computer or a plurality of computers connected via a network, anda display device. The voltage reactive power control device 5 stores aprogram in a recording medium, such as an HDD or an SSD, develops theprogram in a RAM as appropriate, and executes the developed program by aCPU, to execute necessary arithmetic processing such as an extractingprocess of the bus voltage fluctuation components due to the outputfluctuation of the renewable energy power generation to be describedlater.

More specifically, as illustrated in FIG. 2, the voltage reactive powercontrol device 5 includes a bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit 51,an RE component extracting unit 52, a creating unit 53, and a controlunit 54.

The bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit 51 extracts a bus voltagefluctuation from the measured voltage of the secondary-side bus 12, andcan perform extraction by conventionally well-known schemes. In thisexample, the bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit 51 is a band-passfilter. As for the measured voltage of the secondary-side bus 12, forexample, the input of the measured value from a voltage measuring deviceprovided at the secondary-side bus 12 via wired or wirelesscommunication means is received. The bus voltage fluctuation extractingunit 51 may acquire the measured voltages measured at different timesfrom the voltage measuring device provided at the secondary-side bus 12,and may obtain the bus voltage fluctuation from the difference betweenthe measured voltages, and such a scheme is also included in theextraction of the bus voltage fluctuation from the measured bus voltage.

The RE component extracting unit 52 extracts a fluctuation component dueto the output fluctuation of the renewable energy power generations (RE)from bus voltage fluctuation acquired by the bus voltage fluctuationextracting unit 51. This RE component extracting unit 52 eliminates,from the bus voltage fluctuation acquired by the bus voltage fluctuationextracting unit 51, the fluctuation components other than thefluctuation component due to the output fluctuation of the renewableenergy power generations (RE), and takes the remaining bus voltagefluctuation component as the fluctuation component due to the outputfluctuation of the renewable energy power generations (RE).

That is, as indicated by the following formula 1, the RE componentextracting unit 52 acquires a bus voltage fluctuation component ΔV_(RE)due to the RE by eliminating, from a bus voltage fluctuation ΔV acquiredby the bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit 51, a fluctuationcomponent ΔV_(TAP) due to a tap control on the transformer 13, afluctuation component ΔV_(CNT) due to an operation of the phaseadjusting facilities 3, a fluctuation component ΔV_(D) due to a loadchange in the power distribution system, a fluctuation component ΔV_(T)due to a demand-and-supply change by the higher system, and afluctuation component ΔV_(B) due to a control on the battery system.(Formula 1)ΔV _(RE) =ΔV−(ΔV _(TAP) +ΔV _(CNT) +ΔV _(D) +ΔV _(T) +ΔV _(B))  (1)

More specifically, as illustrated in FIG. 3, the RE component extractingunit 52 includes a transformer component eliminating unit 521, aphase-adjusting-facilities component eliminating unit 522, apower-distribution-system-load component eliminating unit 523, ahigher-system component eliminating unit 524, and a battery componenteliminating unit 525.

The transformer component eliminating unit 521 eliminates the busvoltage fluctuation component due to the tap control on the transformer13 from the input bus voltage fluctuation. Thephase-adjusting-facilities component eliminating unit 522 eliminates thebus voltage fluctuation component due to the operation of the phaseadjusting facilities 3 from the input bus voltage fluctuation. Thepower-distribution-system-load component eliminating unit 523 eliminatesthe bus voltage fluctuation component due to the load change in thepower distribution system 2 from the input bus voltage fluctuation. Thehigher-system component eliminating unit 524 eliminates the bus voltagefluctuation component due to the demand-and-supply change of the highersystem from the input bus voltage fluctuation. The battery componenteliminating unit 525 eliminates the bus voltage fluctuation componentdue to the control on the battery system 4 from the input bus voltagefluctuation.

In the RE component extracting unit 52, the elimination sequence of thefluctuation components is not particularly limited. Moreover, the term“input bus voltage fluctuation” in each eliminating unit 521 to 525 isthe bus voltage fluctuation acquired by the bus voltage fluctuationextracting unit 51 or the bus voltage fluctuation from which thefluctuation before each eliminating unit 521 to 525 has been eliminated.

For example, as illustrated in FIG. 3, when the RE component extractingunit 52 eliminates each of the fluctuation components in the sequence ofthe eliminating units 521 to 525, the bus voltage fluctuation input toeach eliminating unit 521 to 525 is as follows.

(Step 1) Bus voltage fluctuation input to the transformer componenteliminating unit 521: ΔV

(Step 2) Bus voltage fluctuation input to the phase-adjusting-facilitiescomponent eliminating unit 522: ΔV−ΔV_(Tap)

(Step 3) Bus voltage fluctuation input to thepower-distribution-system-load component eliminating unit 523:ΔV−ΔV_(TAP)−ΔV_(CNT)

(Step 4) Bus voltage fluctuation input to the higher-system componenteliminating unit 524: ΔV−ΔV_(TAP)−ΔV_(CNT)−ΔV_(D)

(Step 5) Bus voltage fluctuation input to the battery componenteliminating unit 525: ΔV−Δ_(TAP)−ΔV_(CNT)−ΔV_(D)−ΔV_(T)

The elimination schemes for the fluctuation components by the respectiveeliminating units 521 to 525 will be described. Since the fluctuationcomponent ΔV_(TAP) due to the tap control on the transformer 13, thefluctuation component ΔV_(CNT) due to the operation of the phaseadjusting facilities 3, the fluctuation component ΔV_(D) due to the loadchange in the power distribution system 2, the fluctuation componentΔV_(T) due to the demand-and-supply change by the higher system, and thefluctuation component ΔV_(B) due to the control on the battery system 4have different frequency bands from that of the bus voltage fluctuationcomponent due to various other fluctuations when frequency analysis isexecuted on the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV, each of the eliminatingunits 521 to 525 eliminates, for example, from the input bus voltagefluctuation, the bus voltage fluctuation components in the frequencybands unique to the fluctuation components to be input to each of theeliminating units 521 to 525.

That is, the frequency bands unique to the fluctuation components to beto be input to each of the eliminating units 521 to 525 are stored inadvance in an unillustrated recording medium, and each eliminating unit521 to 525 acquires own unique frequency bands from said recordingmedium, and executes the process of eliminating the component in thefrequency band same as said frequency band from the input bus voltagefluctuation.

In addition, since the fluctuation component ΔV_(D) due to the loadchange in the power distribution system and the fluctuation componentΔV_(T) due to the demand-and-supply change by the higher system aregenerally small, the power-distribution-system-load componenteliminating unit 523 may determine the fluctuation component that isequal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold in the bus voltagefluctuation ΔV as ΔV_(D), and may eliminate this component. Moreover,the higher-system component eliminating unit 524 may determine thefluctuation component that is equal to or smaller than a predeterminedthreshold in the bus fluctuation ΔV as ΔV_(T), and may eliminate thiscomponent.

The threshold for the power-distribution-system load change and thethreshold for the higher system can be designed and changed asappropriate in view of a system status, a circuit structure, etc. Thelarge-small relation of these thresholds may change when, for example, acity where the power distribution system is located develops, and when apower generation plant and a transformer station are additionallyinstalled in the higher system. Moreover, each of the eliminating units523 and 524 may determine the fluctuation component that is equal to orsmaller than the predetermined threshold in the input bus voltagefluctuation as ΔV_(D) and ΔV_(T), and may eliminate these components.

Furthermore, the fluctuation component ΔV_(B) by the control on thebattery system 4 may be acquired as follows and be eliminated. That is,as illustrated in FIG. 4, the RE component extracting unit 52 mayinclude a battery fluctuation component calculating unit 526 thatcalculates the bus voltage fluctuation component ΔV_(B) due to thecontrol on the battery system 4 based on a system constant, and thebattery component eliminating unit 525 may eliminate the fluctuationcomponent ΔV_(B) calculated by the battery fluctuation componentcalculating unit 526 from the bus bar voltage fluctuation. The systemconstant is a constant defined in accordance with the installationlocation of the battery system 4, the system interconnection statusbetween the bus, etc., and is, for example, an impedance. Thefluctuation component ΔV_(B) due to the control on the battery system 4is, for example, ΔV_(B)=K×Q, when the system constant is K and thereactive power output by the battery system 4 is Q, but the presentdisclosure is not limited to this case.

The creating unit 53 creates a reactive power command value Q forsuppressing the fluctuation based on the bus voltage fluctuation due tothe renewable energy power generations extracted by the RE componentextracting unit 52. The reactive power command value Q is created basedon the following formula 2.(Formula 2)Q=Q _(before) +K _(Q) ×ΔV _(RE)  (2)

In this case, Q_(before) is the reactive power command value createdimmediately before. K_(Q) is a system constant that indicates thefluctuation of the reactive power command value relative to the voltagefluctuation of the bus, and increases as the number of powertransmission lines gathered to the secondary-side bus 12 to which thebattery system 4 is connected increases. Depending on the structure ofthe power transmission system, K_(Q) is, for example, 10 to 15 Mvar/kV.Moreover, it is clear from the formula 2 that a fluctuation amount ofthe reactive power command value ΔQ (=Q−Q_(before)) satisfies a relationof ΔQ=K_(Q)×ΔV_(RE). The reactive power command value Q may be createdwith a control constant such as a primary delay constant and a gainbeing considered.

The control unit 54 executes reactive power control on the batterysystem 4 based on the reactive power command value Q created by thecreating unit 53. More specifically, said command value Q is output tothe AC and DC converter of the battery system 4 to control the reactivepower output by the battery system 4 to become close to the commandvalue Q. The control by the control unit 54 is, for example, a Pcontrol, a PI control, or a PID control.

[1-2. Action and Effect]

(1) The voltage reactive power control device 5 according to thisembodiment is the voltage reactive power control device 5 thatsuppresses fluctuation of a voltage of the secondary-side bus 12 of thepower distribution transformer station 1 to which the power distributionsystem 2 including a renewable energy power generation and the batterysystem 4 are connected, and includes the bus voltage fluctuationextracting unit 51 that extracts the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV from thevoltage of the secondary-side bus 12, the RE component extracting unit52 that extracts the fluctuation component ΔV_(RE) due to the renewableenergy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV, thecreating unit 53 that creates the reactive power command value Q forsuppressing the fluctuation component ΔV_(RE) based on the bus voltagefluctuation component ΔV_(RE) due to the renewable energy powergeneration extracted by the RE component extracting unit 52, and thecontrol unit 54 that executes the reactive power control on the batterysystem 4 based on the reactive power command value Q. The RE componentextracting unit 52 extracts the fluctuation component due to therenewable energy power generation by eliminating the fluctuationcomponents other than the fluctuation component ΔV_(RE) due to therenewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV.

This enables a suppression of the bus voltage fluctuation due to theoutput fluctuation of renewable energy power generation cooperativelywith the reactive power control by already-existing facilities by asimple structure without utilizing a measured output value of therenewable energy power generation.

That is, even if the power distribution system includes a plurality ofrenewable energy power generations, since the respective individualoutput fluctuations thereof are collected in the form of the bus voltagefluctuation ΔV, the bus voltage fluctuation due to the outputfluctuation of the renewable energy power generations is extracted by anelimination of fluctuation components other than the fluctuation due tothe renewable energy power generation, and the reactive power control isexecuted on the battery system based on the extracted fluctuation, itbecomes unnecessary to individually monitor the output fluctuation ofthe renewable energy power generation distributed in the powerdistribution system and execute the individual reactive power control,and the bus voltage fluctuation due to the output fluctuation of therenewable energy power generation can be suppressed by a simplestructure.

Moreover, since the fluctuation components other than the fluctuationcomponent ΔV_(RE) due to the renewable energy power generation areeliminated from the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV, reactive power controlcan be cooperatively executed without interfering the reactive powercontrol by already-existing facilities which attempts to suppress thebas voltage fluctuation due to the load change in the power distributionsystem 2 included in the eliminated component.

(2) The RE component extracting unit 52 includes the transformercomponent eliminating unit 521 that eliminates the bus voltagefluctuation component ΔV_(TAP) due to the tap control on the transformer13 provided in the power distribution transformer station 1 from theinput bus voltage fluctuation, the phase-adjusting-facilities componenteliminating unit 522 that eliminates the bus voltage fluctuationcomponent ΔV_(CNT) due to the operation of the phase adjustingfacilities 3 provided in the power distribution transformer station 1from the input bus voltage fluctuation, thepower-distribution-system-load component eliminating unit 523 thateliminates the bus voltage fluctuation component ΔV_(D) due to the loadchange in the power distribution system 2 from the input bus voltagefluctuation, the higher-system component eliminating unit 524 thateliminates the bus voltage fluctuation component ΔV_(T) due to thedemand-and-supply change of the higher-system connected to the powerdistribution transformer station 1 from the input bus voltagefluctuation, and the battery component eliminating unit 525 thateliminates the bus voltage fluctuation component ΔV_(B) due to thecontrol on the battery system 4 from the input bus voltage fluctuation.

That is, according to this embodiment, the fluctuation components otherthan the fluctuation component due to the renewable energy powergenerations are defined as the fluctuation component ΔV_(TAP) due to thetap control on the transformer 13, the fluctuation component ΔV_(CNT)due to the operation of the phase adjusting facilities 3, thefluctuation component ΔV_(D) due to the load change in the powerdistribution system, the fluctuation component ΔV_(T) due to thedemand-and-supply change in higher-system, and the fluctuation componentΔV_(B) due to the control on the battery system 4, and are eliminatedfrom the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV.

Hence, since this embodiment is subjected to the suppression of the busvoltage fluctuation due to the output fluctuation of the renewableenergy power generation, the reactive power control of thealready-existing transformer 13 and the already-existing phase adjustingfacilities 3 conventionally installed in the power distributiontransformer station 1 can be can be used as they are without changes,and the bus voltage fluctuation can be suppressed cooperatively withoutinterfering the reactive power control by already-existing facilities.

(3) The transformer component eliminating unit 521, thephase-adjusting-facilities component eliminating unit 522, thepower-distribution-system-load component eliminating unit 523, thehigher-system component eliminating unit 524, or the battery componenteliminating unit 525 eliminates the bus voltage fluctuation in thefrequency band unique to the fluctuation component to be subjected byeach of the eliminating unit. This enables an elimination of thefluctuation components ΔV_(TAP), ΔV_(CNT), ΔV_(D), ΔV_(T), or ΔV_(B)from the bus voltage fluctuation Δ, enabling an extraction of the busvoltage fluctuation component due to the output fluctuation of therenewable energy power generations.

(4) The power-distribution-system-load component eliminating unit 523eliminates the fluctuation component that is equal to or smaller thanthe predetermined threshold as the bus voltage fluctuation componentΔV_(D) due to the load change in the power distribution system 2 in thebus voltage fluctuation ΔV extracted by the bus voltage fluctuationextracting unit 51. Accordingly, since the bus voltage fluctuationΔV_(D) due to the load change in the power distribution system 2 isgenerally small, by taking the fluctuation that is equal to or smallerthan the predetermined threshold as the bus voltage fluctuationcomponent ΔV_(D) due to the load change in the power distribution system2, it becomes unnecessary to eliminate the component in the frequencyband unique to the bus voltage fluctuation due to the load change in thepower distribution system 2, and the device structure can be simplified.

(5) The higher-system component eliminating unit 524 eliminates thefluctuation component that is equal to or smaller than the predeterminedthreshold as the bus voltage fluctuation component ΔV_(T) due to thedemand-and-supply change in the higher-system in the bus voltagefluctuation ΔV extracted by the bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit51. Accordingly, since the bus fluctuation due to the load change in thepower distribution system is generally small, by taking the fluctuationthat is equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold as the busvoltage fluctuation component ΔV_(T) due to the demand-and-supply changein the higher-system, it becomes unnecessary to eliminate the componentin the frequency band unique to the bus voltage fluctuation due to thedemand-and-supply change in the higher-system, and the device structurecan be simplified.

(6) The RE component extracting unit 52 includes the battery fluctuationcomponent calculating unit 526 that calculates the bus voltagefluctuation component ΔV_(B) due to the control on the battery system 4based on the system constant, and the battery component eliminating unit525 eliminates the fluctuation component calculated by the batteryfluctuation component calculating unit 526 from the input bus voltagefluctuation. This enables an estimation of the bus voltage fluctuationcomponent ΔV_(B) due to the control on the battery system 4, and saidestimated value can be eliminated as the fluctuation due to the controlon the battery system 4.

2. Second Embodiment

[2-1. Structure]

A second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.The second embodiment employs the same basic structure as that of thefirst embodiment. In the following description, only the difference fromthe first embodiment will be described, the reference numeral will begiven to the same component as that of the first embodiment, and thedetailed description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of an entire voltage reactive powercontrol system to which the voltage reactive power control device 5according to the second embodiment is applied. FIG. 6 is a functionalblock diagram of the voltage reactive power control device 5 accordingthe second embodiment. The voltage reactive power control device 5according to this embodiment determines whether ΔV_(RE) extracted by theRE component extracting unit 52 is proper or not in view of the presenceand absence of the power fluctuation due to the RE component in thepower distribution transformer station 1.

More specifically, as illustrated in FIG. 6, the voltage reactive powercontrol device 5 according to this embodiment further includes a powerfluctuation extracting unit 55, an RE component extracting unit 56, anda determining unit 57.

The power fluctuation extracting unit 55 extract a power fluctuation ΔPfrom a power P in the power distribution transformer station 1, and canperform extraction by a well-known scheme. In this example, the powerfluctuation extracting unit 55 is a band-pass filter. As illustrated inFIG. 5, the power P is a total power that has passed through thetransformers 13, and is a collection of powers measured by power metersprovided at a lower side of each transformer 13. This collection may beexecuted by the voltage reactive power control device 5. Moreover, thepower fluctuation extracting unit 55 may acquire the power P ofdifferent times, and may acquire the power fluctuation ΔP from thedifference therebetween, and said scheme is also included in theextraction of the power fluctuation ΔP from the power P in the powerdistribution transformer station 1.

The RE component extracting unit 56 extracts a fluctuation componentΔP_(RE) due to the output fluctuation of the renewable energy powergenerations from the power fluctuation ΔP acquired by the powerfluctuation extracting unit 55. The RE component extracting unit 56extracts ΔP_(RE) by utilizing the fluctuation characteristic unique tothe fluctuation component due to the output fluctuation of the renewableenergy power generations. As for such a fluctuation characteristic, thespeed of fluctuation, the length of a fluctuation cycle, etc., areapplicable. Moreover, the RE component extracting unit 56 may extractthe frequency band unique to the fluctuation component due to the outputfluctuation of the renewable energy power generations.

The determining unit 57 receives ΔP_(RE) input from the RE componentextracting unit 56, and receives ΔV_(RE) input from the RE componentextracting unit 52. Next, the determining unit 57 determines whether thebus voltage fluctuation component ΔV_(RE) due to the output fluctuationof the renewable energy power generations is proper or not based on themagnitude |ΔP_(RE)| of the power fluctuation component ΔP_(RE) due tothe output fluctuation of the renewable energy power generations.

More specifically, the determining unit 57 acquires the magnitude|ΔP_(RE)| of the power fluctuation component ΔP_(RE), determines whethersuch a magnitude |ΔP_(RE)| is equal to or smaller than a predeterminedthreshold or not, and when it is determined that such a magnitude isequal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold, the determiningunit 57 determines as improper, sets the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV_(RE)due to the output fluctuation of the renewable energy power generationsinput from the RE component extracting unit 52 to be zero, and outputsthe set value to the creating unit 53. For example, when |ΔP_(RE)| isequal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold, and ΔV_(RE) isleft (ΔV_(RE)≠0), this indicates that the fluctuation components otherthan the bus voltage fluctuation component due to the output fluctuationof the renewable energy power generation have not been sufficientlyeliminated, and Δ_(RE) is set to be zero.

In contrast, when the determining unit 57 determines that the magnitudeof ΔP_(RE) exceeds the predetermined threshold, since a determinationthat ΔV_(RE) is contained in the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV, and thefluctuation components other than ΔV_(RE) have been sufficientlyeliminated can be made, the determining unit 57 determines as proper,and directly outputs ΔV_(RE) to the creating unit 53. The subsequentcontrol is consistent with that of the first embodiment, and thus thedescription will be omitted.

[2-2. Action and Effect]

The voltage reactive power control device 5 according to this embodimentincludes the power fluctuation extracting unit 55 that extracts thepower fluctuation ΔP from the power P in the power distributiontransformer station 1, the RE component extracting unit 56 that extractsthe fluctuation component ΔP_(RE) due to the renewable energy powergeneration from the power fluctuation ΔP, and the determining unit 57that determines whether the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV_(RE) due to theoutput fluctuation of the renewable energy power generation extracted bythe RE component extracting unit 52 is proper or not based on themagnitude |ΔP_(RE)| of the fluctuation component extracted by the REcomponent extracting unit 56, and when determining that the magnitude|ΔP_(RE)| of the fluctuation component extracted by the RE componentextracting unit 56 is equal to or smaller than the predeterminedthreshold and is improper, the determining unit 57 sets the bus voltagefluctuation ΔV_(RE) due to the output fluctuation of the renewableenergy power generation to be zero, and outputs the set value to thecreating unit 53.

This prevents the reactive power control based on the false ΔV_(RE).That is, since the RE component extracting unit 52 employs a scheme ofacquiring the fluctuation ΔV_(RE) by the RE component by eliminating thefluctuation components other than the fluctuation component due to theRE from the bus voltage fluctuation ΔV, even if the fluctuationcomponents other than the RE fluctuation component are not sufficientlyeliminated, it can be confirmed whether ΔV_(RE) acquired by the REcomponent extracting unit 52 is proper or not based on whether |ΔP_(RE)|is equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold or not. Hence,when it is determined that ΔV_(RE) acquired by the RE componentextracting unit 52 is improper, ΔV_(RE) acquired by the RE componentextracting unit 52 is set to be zero and output to the creating unit 53,preventing the creating unit 53 and the control unit 54 from executingthe reactive power control based on the false ΔV_(RE).

3. Other Embodiments

Although several embodiments of the present disclosure have beendescribed in this specification, these embodiments are merely presentedas examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the presentdisclosure. The above embodiments can be carried out in other variousforms, and various omissions, replacements, and modifications can bemade thereto without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.Such embodiments and modified forms thereof are within the scope andspirit of the present disclosure, and also within the scope of theinvention as recited in the appended claims and the equivalent rangethereto.

For example, in the first embodiment, the power-distribution-system-loadcomponent eliminating unit 523 and the higher-system componenteliminating unit 524 eliminate the fluctuation that is equal to orsmaller than the predetermined thresholds as the fluctuation componentdue to the load of the power distribution system and as the fluctuationdue to the elimination by the higher-system in the bus voltagefluctuation ΔV, and such a range may be set as dead bands.

Moreover, in the second embodiment, when determining that ΔV_(RE) isimproper, the determining unit 57 outputs ΔV_(RE) that is set to be zeroto the creating unit 53, but the RE component extracting unit 52 may setthe extracted ΔV_(RE) to be zero, and output to the creating unit 53,upon receiving the determination result by the determining unit 57 thatis improper, and. Moreover, after the RE component extracting unit 52outputs ΔV_(RE) to the creating unit 53, the creating unit 53 may waitfor the determination result of the determining unit 57, and then createthe reactive power command value Q. More specifically, when receiving asignal indicating that the determination result by the determining unit57 is improper, the creating unit 53 may set ΔV_(RE) input from the REcomponent extracting unit 52 to be zero, and when receiving the signalindicating that the determination result by the determining unit 57 isproper, the creating unit may create the reactive power command value Qbased on the input ΔV_(RE).

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-   -   1 Power distribution transformer station    -   11 Primary-side bus    -   12 Secondary-side bus    -   13 Transformer    -   2 Power distribution system    -   3 Phase adjusting facilities    -   4 Battery systems    -   5 Voltage reactive power control device    -   51 Bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit    -   52 RE component extracting unit    -   521 Transformer component eliminating unit    -   522 Phase-adjusting-facilities component eliminating unit    -   523 Power-distribution-system-load component eliminating unit    -   524 Higher-system component eliminating unit    -   525 Battery component eliminating unit    -   526 Battery fluctuation component calculating unit    -   53 Creating unit    -   54 Control unit    -   55 Power fluctuation extracting unit    -   56 RE component extracting unit    -   57 Determining unit

The invention claimed is:
 1. A voltage reactive power control devicethat suppresses a fluctuation of a bus voltage of a power distributiontransformer station to which a power distribution system including arenewable energy power generation, and a battery system are connected,the voltage reactive power control device comprising: a first extractingunit that extracts an input bus voltage fluctuation from the busvoltage; a second extracting unit that extracts a fluctuation componentdue to the renewable energy power generation from the input bus voltagefluctuation; a creating unit that creates a reactive power command valuefor suppressing the fluctuation based on the fluctuation component dueto the renewable energy power generation extracted by the secondextracting unit; and a control unit that executes a reactive powercontrol on the battery system based on the reactive power command value,wherein: the second extracting unit extracts the fluctuation componentdue to the renewable energy power generation by eliminating fluctuationcomponents other than the fluctuation component due to the renewableenergy power generation from the input bus voltage fluctuation, and thesecond extracting unit comprises: a transformer component eliminatingunit that eliminates a bus voltage fluctuation component due to a tapcontrol on a transformer provided in the power distribution transformerstation from the input bus voltage fluctuation; aphase-adjusting-facilities component eliminating unit that eliminates abus voltage fluctuation component due to an operation of phase adjustingfacilities provided in the power distribution transformer station fromthe input bus voltage fluctuation; a power-distribution-system-loadcomponent eliminating unit that eliminates a bus voltage fluctuationcomponent due to a load change in the power distribution system from theinput bus voltage fluctuation; a higher-system component eliminatingunit that eliminates a bus voltage fluctuation component due to ademand-and-supply change of a higher-system connected to the powerdistribution transformer station from the input bus voltage fluctuation;and a battery component eliminating unit that eliminates a bus voltagefluctuation component due to a control on the battery system from theinput bus voltage fluctuation.
 2. The voltage reactive power controldevice according to claim 1, wherein the transformer componenteliminating unit, the phase-adjusting-facilities component eliminatingunit, the power-distribution-system-load component eliminating unit, thehigher-system component eliminating unit, or the battery componenteliminating unit eliminates the input bus voltage fluctuation in afrequency band unique to the fluctuation component to be subjected byeach of the eliminating units.
 3. The voltage reactive power controldevice according to claim 1, wherein the power-distribution-system-loadcomponent eliminating unit eliminates the fluctuation component that isequal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold as the fluctuationcomponent due to the load change in the power distribution system in theinput bus voltage fluctuation extracted by the first extracting unit. 4.The voltage reactive power control device according to claim 1, whereinthe higher-system component eliminating unit eliminates the fluctuationcomponent that is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold asthe fluctuation component due to the demand-and-supply change in thehigher-system in the input bus voltage fluctuation extracted by thefirst extracting unit.
 5. The voltage reactive power control deviceaccording to claim 1, wherein the second extracting unit comprises abattery fluctuation component calculating unit that calculates thefluctuation component due to the control on the battery system based ona system constant, wherein the battery component eliminating uniteliminates the fluctuation component calculated by the batteryfluctuation component calculating unit from the input bus voltagefluctuation.
 6. A voltage reactive power control device that suppressesa fluctuation of a bus voltage of a power distribution transformerstation to which a power distribution system including a renewableenergy power generation, and a battery system are connected, the voltagereactive power control device comprising: a first extracting unit thatextracts an input bus voltage fluctuation from the bus voltage; a secondextracting unit that extracts a fluctuation component due to therenewable energy power generation from the input bus voltagefluctuation; a creating unit that creates a reactive power command valuefor suppressing the fluctuation based on the fluctuation component dueto the renewable energy power generation extracted by the secondextracting unit; a control unit that executes a reactive power controlon the battery system based on the reactive power command value; a thirdextracting unit that extracts a power fluctuation from power in thepower distribution transformer station; a fourth extracting unit thatextracts the α second fluctuation component due to the renewable energypower generation from the power fluctuation; and a determining unit thatdetermines whether the input bus voltage fluctuation due to an outputfluctuation of the renewable energy power generation extracted by thesecond extracting unit is proper or not based on a magnitude of thesecond fluctuation component extracted by the fourth extracting unit,wherein: the second extracting unit extracts the fluctuation componentdue to the renewable energy power generation by eliminating fluctuationcomponents other than the fluctuation component due to the renewableenergy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation, and whendetermining that the magnitude of the second fluctuation componentextracted by the fourth extracting unit is equal to or smaller than apredetermined threshold and is improper, the determining unit sets theinput bus voltage fluctuation due to the output fluctuation of therenewable energy power generation to be zero, and outputs thefluctuation component to the creating unit.
 7. A voltage reactive powercontrol method to suppress a fluctuation of a bus voltage of a powerdistribution transformer station to which a power distribution systemincluding a renewable energy power generation, and a battery system areconnected, the voltage reactive power control method comprises: a firstextracting process of extracting an input bus voltage fluctuation fromthe bus voltage; a second extracting process of extracting a fluctuationcomponent due to the renewable energy power generation from the inputbus voltage fluctuation; a creating process of creating a reactive powercommand value for suppressing the fluctuation component based on thefluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generationextracted by the second extracting process; and a control process ofexecuting a reactive power control on the battery system based on thereactive power command value, wherein the second extracting processcomprises: a transformer component eliminating process of eliminating abus voltage fluctuation component due to a tap control on a transformerprovided in the power distribution transformer station from the inputbus voltage fluctuation; a phase-adjusting-facilities componenteliminating process of eliminating a bus voltage fluctuation componentdue to an operation of phase adjusting facilities provided in the powerdistribution transformer station from the input bus voltage fluctuation;a power-distribution-system-load component eliminating process ofeliminating a bus voltage fluctuation component due to a load change inthe power distribution system from the input bus voltage fluctuation; ahigher-system component eliminating process of eliminating a bus voltagefluctuation component due to a demand-and-supply change of ahigher-system connected to the power distribution transformer stationfrom the input bus voltage fluctuation; and a battery componenteliminating process of eliminating a bus voltage fluctuation componentdue to a control on the battery system from the input bus voltagefluctuation.
 8. The voltage reactive power control method according toclaim 7, wherein the transformer component eliminating process, thephase-adjusting-facilities component eliminating process, thepower-distribution-system-load component eliminating process, thehigher-system component eliminating process, or the battery componenteliminating process eliminates the input bus voltage fluctuation in afrequency band unique to the fluctuation component to be subjected byeach of the eliminating processes.
 9. The voltage reactive power controlmethod according to claim 7, wherein the power-distribution-system-loadcomponent eliminating process eliminates the fluctuation component thatis equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold as the fluctuationcomponent due to the load change in the power distribution system in theinput bus voltage fluctuation extracted by the first extracting process.10. The voltage reactive power control method according to claim 7,wherein the higher-system component eliminating process eliminates thefluctuation component that is equal to or smaller than a predeterminedthreshold as the fluctuation component due to the demand-and-supplychange in the higher-system in the input bus voltage fluctuationextracted by the first extracting process.
 11. The voltage reactivepower control method according to claim 7, wherein the second extractingprocess comprises a battery fluctuation component calculating processthat calculates the fluctuation component due to the control on thebattery system based on a system constant, wherein the battery componenteliminating process eliminates the fluctuation component calculated bythe battery fluctuation component calculating process from the input busvoltage fluctuation.